[usingpond]

I strongly disagree with your analogy.

Chrome is not a superficially better browser—as a web developer I can attest that Chrome beats out Firefox in myriad ways. Candy has no value other than flavor, and is actually bad for you. The advent of Google's release of Chrome (and the collaboration between Google and Apple engineers on WebKit) has launched the web forward at a speed that Firefox has been struggling to keep up with. That INCLUDES security and openness, not just new prefixed CSS properties.

The browser war was Firefox's to lose, and they dropped the ball. They weren't ready for Chrome, and have yet to catch up.